The 32nd Annual World Fantasy Convention 2006 Teot’s War (c) John Jude Palencar November 2 - 5, 2006 The Renaissance Hotel Austin, Texas Progress Report #5 Address Service Requested Service Address http://www.fact.org/wfc2006 Austin Texas, 78755 Texas, Austin P.O. Box 27277 27277 Box P.O. WFC 2006 WFC Art Show Our art show is a juried art show. In addition to original art for sale, there will be a limited print shop. All art show sales are final. We will accept MasterCard and Visa, as well as cash and traveler’s checks, for art show purchases. We will be hosting an Artists’ Reception. For more information on the reception, please visit Guests of Honor our website. The Art Show will be available for set up beginning at 9am on Thursday, November 2 and tear Glen Cook down must be completed by 6PM on Sunday, November 5. The Art Show will be open to members: Dave Duncan Thursday, 3-6PM Friday, 10am-6pm Robin Hobb Saturday, 10am-6pm Sunday, 10am-3pm These hours are subject to change, so please be sure to visit our website for additional Toastmaster information. The following is a confirmed list of artists who will be exhibiting with us this year: Bradley Denton Chad Beatty Christopher Hill Vincent Villafrana Holly Bird Rocky Kelley Charles Vess Tom Bishop Gary Lippincott Jane Washburn David Deen Greg Manchess Raelinda Wood Editor Guest of Honor Katherine Dewey Mael Nohara Brian Dow John Jude Palencar Glenn Lord Mike Dringenberg John Picacio Sara Felix Arlin Robins Derek Ford Mark Rogers Gary Gianni Lisa Snellings-Clark Artist Guest of Honor Steve Gilberts John Stanko John Jude Palencar Programming World Fantasy 2006 will run two (mostly) concurrent tracks of programming, as well as two (mostly) concurrent reading tracks. We hope to offer a challenging, fun, and diverse Robert E. Howard Artist Guest program. Programming hours will be within the rough outline of Thursday 2pm-11pm, Friday 10am- Gary Gianni 11pm, Saturday 10am-11pm, and Sunday 10am-5 pm. We will have limited programming across the dinner hours on Thursday and Friday and the lunch hours on Friday and Saturday. There will be no programming scheduled against the Guest of Honor interviews or during the banquet, which is scheduled for 7pm-9pm Saturday night. World Fantasy Convention Austin The World Fantasy 2006 programming web page is http://www.fact.org/wfc2006/ WFC 2006 c/o Fact Inc. programming/. Here you can find the programming FAQ, our programming questionnaire, P.O. Box 27277 and up-to-date information on the program as it develops. Austin, Texas 78755 http://www.fact.org/wfc2006 If you are interested in being on programming, or if you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. [email protected] World Fantasy Nominees Hotel SPECIAL AWARD: PROFESSIONAL WFC 2006 will take place at the Renaissance Hotel in the Arboretum, which is a fully-developed Susan Allison and Ginjer Buchanan (for Ace Books) retail and hotel destination approximately 8 miles from Downtown Austin. The Arboreteum is a Lou Anders (for editing at Pyr) green space, with plenty of walking areas and quiet places to sit and read. But as it is also a retail S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemanowicz, Editors (for Supernatural Literature of the World: An area, there are plenty of activities to keep visitors occupied. Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press) Peter Lavery (for Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK) The Renaissance Hotel Chris Roberson and Allison Baker (for MonkeyBrain Books) 9721 Arboretum Boulevard Sean Wallace (for Prime Books) Austin, Texas 78759 1-512-343-2626 or 1-800-HOTELS-1 SPECIAL AWARD: NON-PROFESSIONAL http://www.marriott.com/property/propertypage/AUSSH The Friends of Arthur Machen (for Faunus, Machenalia, and The Life of Arthur Machen) Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian) Room rate for Single-Double: $135 per night (code: facfaca); for Triple-Quad: $150 per night (code: David Howe and Stephen Walker (for Telos Books) facfacb). When you make your reservation, be sure to mention World Fantasy Convention 2006 and Jess Nevins (for The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, from MonkeyBrain Books) the appropriate code to receive the convention rate. Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh, and Wayne MacLaurin (for SF Site) At this time, rooms are quickly selling out, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights are completely sold out. The Fairfield Inns and Suites, just a mile north of the convention hotel, has been confirmed as an overflow hotel. The Fairfield Inns and Suites is located at 11201 N Mopac, Dealer’s Room and their phone number is 512-527-0734 and 800-228-2800. The room rate is $85.00/night, plus tax. Make sure you mention World Fantasy Convention and the code WFCR. The Fairfield Inns and The Dealer’s Room is sold out at this time. Suites will provide a shuttle to and from the nearby Renaissance Hotel. The Dealer’s Room will be available for set up beginning at 9am on Thursday, November 2 and tear down must be completed by 6PM on Sunday, November 5. Please note: all Marriott properties are now nonsmoking properties. As such, there will not be any smoking rooms available in either the Renaissance or the Fairfield Inns and Suites. We are finalizing The Dealer’s Room will be open to members: a contract with another overflow hotel that will have smoking rooms available. Please check our website at http://www.fact.org/wfc2006/hotel/index.htm for more details. Thursday, 3-6PM Friday, 10am-6pm Saturday, 10am-6pm Sunday, 10am-3pm How to get here These hours are subject to change, so please be sure to visit our website for additional information. Austin-Bergstrom Airport is approximately 18 miles from the Renaissance Hotel. If you are driving to the hotel, the easiest way to get to the Renaissance is to take Highway 71 west (exiting the Confirmed dealers are: airport) to Highway 183 North approximately 12 miles. Take the Great Hills Trail exit. At the light, turn left onto Great Hills Trail. At the next light (Arboretum Blvd), turn left. The Renaissance Hotel will be straight ahead. DreamHaven Books Midnight Books Cold Tonnage Books Night Shade Books If you are not planning to drive from the airport, Super Shuttle is available in the lower level of the Adventures in Crime & Space Twilight Tales airport near baggage claim. A shared ride will cost approximately $17 one way from the airport to Dave Christenson Fantastic Voyages the Renaissance. You can go online to www.supershuttle.com and make a reservation for a one Old Earth Books Joe R. Lansdale way or round trip fare. Fine Books Company Borderlands Books Ygor’s Books Dwayne Olson Sign of the Unicorn The Bookie B. Brown & Assoc. Whispers Press Want to host a party? Basement Books Katmandu Books Small Beer Press Benbella Books If you wish to host a party at World Fantasy, please contact us at [email protected]. We have Wheatland Press Borderlands Press several suites available for parties. Fairwood Press Rare Books Tachyon Publications Mark Rogers Realms of Fantasy Prime Books Edge Books WFC Award Banquet World Fantasy Nominees This year, the banquet honoring the World Fantasy Award nominees and winners will be Saturday We are pleased to announce the final ballot for the World Fantasy Awards covering the evening, November 4, at 7PM. Please note the date and time, as this is different from past 2005 award year. Special thanks to the judges: Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria banquets. Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler. The cost of the banquet will be $50 per person. Each table seats 10, and if you wish to purchase a table, the cost will be $500. If all names of a table’s party are not known, extra tickets will be in NOVEL the packet of the person purchasing the table. For more information on reserving tables, please Hal Duncan, Vellum (Macmillan; Del Rey) contact our Banquet Coordinator, Shai Mohammed, at [email protected] Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park (Knopf; Macmillan) Graham Joyce, The Limits of Enchantment (Gollancz; Atria) We have 3 entrees that you may chose from: Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic (Ace) Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (Harvill; Knopf) • Grilled New York Steak with Sweet Potatoes Dauphinoise and Tabasco Onions Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania (Tor) • Pan Seared Salmon with Tomato and Roasted Garlic Risotto with Lemon Butter Sauce and Chef’s Selection of Vegetables NOVELLA • Bronzed Cajun Chicken Breast with Mashed Potatoes with Tasso, Scallions and Lemon Laird Barron, ‘The Imago Sequence’ (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005) Cream Michael Cunningham, ‘In the Machine’ (Specimen Days, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Joe Hill, Voluntary Committal (Subterranean Press) All meals include beverage, Caesar salad, and either Belgium Chocolate Mousse Tart with Mango Tanith Lee, ‘UOUS’ (The Fair Folk, Science Fiction Book Club) Nectar or Texas Pecan Pie. Kelly Link, ‘Magic for Beginners’ (Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press; Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2005) If you have any special dietary needs, please contact our Banquet Coordinator at Simon Morden, Another War (Telos Publishing) [email protected] so that we may let the banquet chef know to prepare a meal to your needs. SHORT FICTION In order to assure we will have a place for you at the banquet, please purchase your tickets no Peter S. Beagle, ‘Two Hearts’ (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005) later than Friday, October 20. Tickets may be purchased on our website at http://www.fact.org/ Joe Hill, ‘Best New Horror’ (Postscripts 3, Spring 2005) wfc2006/membership/banquet.htm. Holly Phillips, ‘The Other Grace’ (In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books) Caitl’n R.